A Dostoevskii Companion by Katherine Bowers, Connor Doak, Kat... - 9781618117274

Name: A Dostoevskii Companion by Katherine Bowers, Connor Doak, Kat... - 9781618117274
Brand: Academic Studies Press

Academic Studies Press

A Dostoevskii CompanionTexts and Contexts\nAuthor(s): Katherine Bowers, Connor Doak, Kate Holland\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Academic Studies Press, United States\nImprint: Academic Studies Press\nISBN-13: 9781618117274, 978-1618117274\nSynopsis\nThe powerful, impassioned, and often frenetic prose of Fedor Dostoevskii continues to fascinate readers in the twenty-first century, even though we are far removed from Dostoevskiis [url] Dostoevskii Companion: Texts and Contexts aims to help students and readers navigate the writers fiction and his world, to better understand the cultural and sociopolitical milieu in which Dostoevskii lived and wrote. Rather than offer a single definitive view of the author, the book contains a collection of documents from Dostoevskiis own time (excerpts from his letters, his journalism, and what his contemporaries wrote about him), as well as extracts from the major critical studies of Dostoevskii from the contemporary academy. The volume equips reader.